With the clocks going forwards last night, I’m back to creeping to my desk in the dark in the mornings, for a while at least. I’ve missed that over the last couple of weeks; the friendly glow of my laptop screen in the gloom, and having nothing to see through the window, helps me focus [...]
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During this enforced break from my WIP, I’ve been occupying myself with all sorts of useful and important activities. Watching TV ads, for example. Like this one… I’m fond of hedgehogs; we have them in our garden and like nothing better than watching them toddle around the flowerbeds on warm summer nights. (I’m less fond [...]
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As winter turns to spring, there was change in the air this week… Going… …into a virtual drawer is my WIP. I made my deadline of 10 March and for my efforts have a detailed outline of almost 18,500 words. Which would be almost one-fifth of the novel, if it works out at 100,000 words, [...]
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I said in my last post, I’d get Baby Bagpuss moving – now watch him go! …Well, listen to him meow, as he rides Hubby’s back on his first expedition into the great outdoors. He was too scared to walk for himself, as if the grass (or moss – this is our garden we’re talking about) were some [...]
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It’s that time of the year again. If your daughters have delicate musical sensibilities, you might want to consider locking them up – along with anyone else with taste, good sense or a nervous disposition. For this Saturday, Market Place will be proud to host the nth Annual Abingdon’s Got Talent (sic) talent show. By [...]
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A more sombre post than I had anticipated to launch this latest new version of Scribblings. Anyone who’s been following my updates on Twitter or Facebook recently will know about Bagpuss’s illness, and his death last Wednesday. And now, just four days later, Hubby and I are off to Northamptonshire this afternoon, to see a [...]
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Excitement abounded in Scribblings Towers this evening when, after returning from a night away in The Big City, I found the number of subscribers to The Vegan Cat-Lover had increased by 50% in just one day! Now my fans include more than just myself and my mum! From the stats page, it seems this new subscriber is in the USA [...]
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Like the Queen, Bagpuss has two birthdays, one official and one real. Unlike the Queen, we do not know the date of Bagpuss’s real birthday, nor his age. In fact, there are many things we do not know about Bagpuss, such as what he is “really” called, and who his parents were, and where he lived before [...]
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When I opened the blinds this morning, I was greeted by a remarkable sight — while we residents of South Abingdon had slumbered, three little gifts had been deposited outside every house in the street. Well, one little gift and two quite big ones. Thanks are due to the Bin Fairy, who paid us all a visit during [...]
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We may have gained and lost a grasshopper this summer, but we have also gained and — to my surprise — kept a goldfish. Just a few weeks ago, Jim-Bob (not our choice) was living in a fishbowl in the bedroom of our neighbour’s son with his good friend Gary, having previously being rescued from a [...]
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